Plants of the Punjab. 



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Shrubs with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Crotalaria Jun«ea, 



Sanai, arjha san. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B.I. ii.79. 

 The Plains. 



Itea nutans, 



Lelar. garkath. 



Saxifragace^. 



P. B. I. ii. 408. 



Himalaya, 



3-6,000lt. 



Sutlej Valley, Suni 



(Collett). 



Osbeckia stellata, 

 Lagerstroemia indlca, 



Opuntia Dillenli, 

 Prickly Pear, 

 Cactus, 



Nagphana. 

 Cactace^. 

 F. B. L ii. 657. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Native of South 

 America. 



Andraehne 

 cordifolia, 



Kurkni, gurguli, 

 hersu. 



EUPHORBIACB^. 



F. B. I. V. 283. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-8,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 

 (Collett). 

 Changlagalli (Douie). 



Petals ununited. 



medium size, cultivated, branches stiff, slender,, 

 silky ; leaves l|-3 in. long, at somewhat distant spaces, 

 linear or oblong, both surfaces shining with short brown 

 silky hairs ; flowers 1 in. long, in 12-20-flowered racemes, 

 6-12 in. long, bracts minute, linear, calyx l-f in. long, 

 covered with rusty velvety hairs, teeth very deep, linear, 

 corolla bright yellow, smooth, protruding a little out of 

 the calyx, stamens 10, united, style long, hairy above ; 

 pod 1-1^ in. long, covered with silky hairs ; seeds 10-15. 

 The fibre is much used for making cordage and sacking. 



large, bark dark grey ; leaves 4-6 by 1|-2| in., ovate, 

 oblong, long-pointed, glandular-toothed, leathery, dark 

 green, shining above, leaf stalk 1-1^ in. long, stout ; 

 flowers y\5- in. long, white, in clusters of 3-7, forming velvety 

 drooping racemes 4-8 in. long, calyx velvety, tube bell- 

 shaped, lobes 5, persistent, petals 5, twice the length 

 of the calyx lobes, linear, erect, stamens 5 ; capsule i in. 

 long, separating into 2 valves through the cell partition 

 and the style, seeds many. 



see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



see Shrubs. Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



medium size, stem flat or round or angled, fleshy, 

 armed with barbed bristles in clusters ; leaves fleshy, 

 soon falling off ; flowers orange red, solitary, sessile, calyx 

 lobes 3-many, small, overlapping, petals many, free or 

 shortly united below, stamens many ; fruit one-celled, 

 pulpy, seeds many, oblong or kidney-shaped ; coccus 

 cacti, the cochineal insect, lives on this plant. It is much 

 used for hedges. 



small, branches slender, round, smooth ; leaves 1-3| 

 by ^-1| in., long-stalked, thin, margin smooth, ovate, 

 oblong, tip rounded, base rounded, stalk |-| in. long ; 

 flowers I in. diam., green, on long, slender axillary stalks, 

 the males in clusters, females solitary, calyx 5-lobed, petals 

 5, stamens 5, females without petals, styles 3, divided into 

 2 long branches ; fruit I in. diam., round with a depression 

 above, seeds 6, triangular. 



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